gibran quote

A soul , often a battlefield, upon which your reason and judgment wage war 
against your passion and your appetite.

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord 
and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody...
But how shall I, unless you yourselves ne also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers 
of ALL the elements.

And a gift from the sea ?

Your reason and passion are the rudder and the sail of your seafaring soul...
If either your sails or rudder be broken, you but toss and drift, or else he 
held at a standstill in mid seas.
For reason ruling alone, is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame 
that burns to its own destruction
Therefore ley your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion
That it may sing
And let it direct ur passion
With reason
That your passion may live through its own daily resurrection and like the 
pheonix rise above its own ashes !


-gibran